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Travel tips aren’t just lists of things to pack. They’re insights gained from hundreds of hours spent at the airport, on the bus, or preparing a backup plan B. In this section, you’ll find advice that we’ve tested ourselves.
We write about how to pack efficiently for a trip that combines camping and a formal evening in a single backpack. How to save money on plane tickets without resorting to tricks that don’t work anyway, how to navigate public transportation in foreign countries, and how to handle situations when traveling stops being romantic. You’ll find guides to travel insurance, tips on travel apps we actually use. Honest reviews of gadgets we wouldn’t set out on a trip without today.
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Choose a topic that interests you and start reading. Good preparation is half the fun and poor preparation is half the disaster.
Want to save money when buying flights? We’ve put together a detailed comparison of flight search engines to help you find the best prices. When you’re after the best price and aren’t tied to a particular airline, you should use flight search engines that show you offers from a range...
We came to Katowice mainly as a transfer stop on the way somewhere else. But the city centre personally stopped me in my tracks – in a good way. I expected a grey industrial city and got a lively centre that breathes at first glance, and when I saw old...
We’re writing this one differently from the rest. No funny detours. Auschwitz is a place that doesn’t deserve that tone, and yet we wanted to write a guide that helps you handle the visit both practically and humanly. Because here too, good preparation makes the difference between standing confused at...
It was March 2022 and my colleagues and I were planning our annual nomad trip. The choice fell on Sicily. We booked flights from Vienna to Catania and believed it would be ‘a nice trip to Italy’. Except Sicily isn’t Italy. Or rather – it’s more than Italy. This article...
There are places that leave you in peace. The Aeolian Islands aren’t among them. Just as the Egadi Islands [read more in our guide to the Egadi Islands] left a brutal impression on us, so did the Aeolians. This is where we got up at 3:55 in the morning to...
In 2022 I wrote to myself that I had no expectations of Taormina. Since then I’ve been there 3 times, always out of season, and I’m always glad to go back. For those epic views of Etna and the climb up to the very top of the town. That’s exactly...
Catania waited a long time for tourists. Palermo was always the first choice, Taormina the postcard star. But Catania – Sicily’s second-largest city – is slowly making its case as perhaps the most honest of the three. On every visit we flew into Catania and took our trips from there....
Want to save money when buying flights? We’ve put together a detailed comparison of flight search engines to help you find the best prices. When you’re after the best price and aren’t tied to a particular airline, you should use flight search engines that show you offers from a range...
We came to Katowice mainly as a transfer stop on the way somewhere else. But the city centre personally stopped me in my tracks – in a good way. I expected a grey industrial city and got a lively centre that breathes at first glance, and when I saw old...
